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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink46•7 months agoPeople with social anxiety born before 1980 didn’t have the memes to express themselves
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•7 months agoHard to say. Definitely not as many people actually naming their anxiety. It was sort of taboo to talk about mental health plainly. But a lotttt of folks with dubious coping mechanisms, just repressed and bottled up without even the memes to combat their anomie.
minus-square@samus12345linkEnglish9•edit-27 months agoYes. They just didn’t have nearly as many outlets to express it.
People with social anxiety born before 1980 didn’t have the memes to express themselves
But were there so many of them?
Hard to say. Definitely not as many people actually naming their anxiety. It was sort of taboo to talk about mental health plainly.
But a lotttt of folks with dubious coping mechanisms, just repressed and bottled up without even the memes to combat their anomie.
Yes. They just didn’t have nearly as many outlets to express it.